The stink around Belle Avenue is back. And the proposal to move Controlled Waste Systems Inc. out of the residential neighborhood has hit another speed bump.

The company is operating garbage trucks along the residential East Utica street, despite an agreement with the city not to.

But residents say the trucks started appearing more frequently a few weeks ago.

The trucks spew diesel fumes and should've been gone long ago, said Rosemary Street resident James Costello.

“I'm sick of it,” he said. “It's been going on for so long. They always have an excuse to keep things the way they want them to be.”

The city has tried to work with the company to keep the trucks out of the neighborhood, including offering it space at the Department of Public Works, Mayor Robert Palmieri said.

“We've done an awful lot to remedy the situation,” he said. “We're negotiating and trying to facilitate a permanent site for them.”

The company did not return calls for comment.

The CWSI-Belle Avenue issue has been a problem for years, with potential solutions repeatedly falling through. In 2007, the city determined the company's operations did not meet the zoning code for the residential neighborhood.

In 2011, at the city's urging, the company moved some of its operations to Barnes Avenue, but kept its headquarters in East Utica.

But just months after the move, the state decided to shut down the Barnes Avenue bridge, forcing the company back to Belle Avenue after sinking $200,000 into its building.

Just after he took office in 2012, Palmieri announced the company would store its trucks at the city's DPW facility on Wurz Avenue. But the company has declined to continue to use the city's garage because of several alleged incidents involving property damage.

Last year, the city agreed in principle to sell the former Matt Petroleum site along Leland Avenue to the company.

The problem is that CWSI has an ongoing dispute with the city over compensation for the Barnes Avenue bridge closure. The two sides have been unable to resolve the issue.

The company was started and operated for many years by the Mancuso family, with Steven Mancuso as president.

Last week, Councilman Joseph Marino and Corporation Counsel Mark Curley met with several neighborhood residents to listen to their concerns and explain what the city was doing.

The situation needs to be resolved and all three sides want it to be, said Marino, D-4.

“We have to get them out there,” he said. “The neighbors don't want them there, the city doesn't want them there and (CWSI) doesn't want to be there.”

Larry Cohen, the Republican candidate for the Fourth Ward said the state should have stepped in to repair the Barnes Avenue bridge much sooner, rather than let it deteriorate.

Page 2 of 2 - "This has been an on-going problem down there," he said. "It seems to me that the problem was initially with the bridge and they shouldv'e pushed for the state to do something abou thte bridge."